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tion, radium, 
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k HIS book is called The White 
Spark as the white spark or 
vacuum cell in Nature IS THE 
RIGHT HAND OF GOD— it is 
a ubiquitous principle of the 
universe and is the cause and 
parent of electricity, combus- 
snow-flakes, flowers, trees, leaves, 
wireless telegraphy, animal forms 
and EVEN LIFE ITSELF. 

This book is the key to every department of 
human endeavor, as it enunciates the basic prin- 
ciple and THE PRIME MOVER of the universe. 

It tells the road to health, the cause and cure of 
disease, the truth about the germ humbug and 
drug treatments, serums and antitoxins. 

It shows why luminosity is produced on the 
flesh of various organisms, why a slice of pollock 
when first iced, then heated to 100 degrees and then 
thrust into a temperature of 50 degrees becomes 
luminous. 

It shows the farmer that he can become a 
magician of agriculture — tells that the nitrogen of 



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the air is only a dust of quartz rocks, like the in- 
visible moisture of the air is "a dust of water" — 
that the nodules on the roots of the clover and 
legumes do not abstract nitrogen from the air, for 
if they did nature would have placed these 
bacteriological growths on the vine and not the 
root, the scientists have the cart before the horse 
in this case and the nodular cells form the proteids 
from sand or silica, this book tells how it is done. 

It tells what a trance is and how the soul can 
leave the body temporarily. 

How JESUS CHRIST is carrying out the biblical 
prophesy by TELEPATHY. 

Gives the truths about the ideal society, alcohol, 
drunkenness, causes of crime, longevity and law. 

It shows why milk from the cow at loo degrees 
of temperature if suddenly cooled to 50 degrees by 
the small stream process will keep long and remain 
free from bacteria — how radioactivity kills the 
germs of fermentation and prevents ptomaine 
poisoning and why out door livers or moderately 
working farmers are the centennarians. 

Gives the statistics to prove the evils of alcohol 
and fast living. 

Shows that all force even gravity is a radioactive 
emanation from the white sparks and that universal 



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gravitation is a vagary, that the planets move on 
orbits which are RIBBONS OF FORCE like the 
gulf stream. 

The author is the man who converted the great 
scientists to the idea that matter was simply "A 
HOLE IN THE ETHER" and that the ether was the 
real and only element in the universe. 

This proves the truth of the biblical statement, 
that God made the world out of nothing, and that 
matter is simply spirit in motion. 

This book shows how all the conditions of crime 
react upon us, that physiology and rectitude are 
interdependent and although you do not go to hell, 
yet hell will come to you if you transgress the laws 
of God and Nature. 

It shows the power of mind over the body and 
that the religion of Jesus is not a fluke to satisfy a 
whim but is a great commercial like business. 
There is no vicarious atonement in Nature, She 
does not bandy and has no favorites, you get what 
you pay for, She keeps no books but has an auto- 
matic adjustment which regulates accounts as you 
go along and marks your soul for the future as well. 

This book advocates churches and pastors or 
teachers who are God's Noblemen and it advocates 



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THEOCRATIC DEMOCRACY for if you love God 
and your neighbor you are the CORRECT LAW. 

But you can never overrule the law that your tem- 
per, rage, cruelty and vindictiveness will be uncontrolla- 
ble as long as you use tobacco, alcohol and meats, and 
WAR WILL NOT BE ANNIHILATED UNTIL YOU 
REFORM YOUR DIET AND HABITS. "Abstinence 
begets spirituality— dissipation crime", and yourself, 
your wife, children, associates, animals and humanity 
suffer — you have misapprehensions, moroseness and 
misery. 

War is the result of selfishness, greed, graft, 
ignorance and animalism and it advocates education 
of the individual to the end that he shall combine 
and amalgamate his power with his fellow citizen, 
when he can control WAR and government. 

This book shows that diffusion of light and the 
freezing of water into ice is from one white spark 
radiating "high frequency" straight cold rays 
against its warm neighboring molecule and causing 
it to become a white spark itself, it gives "con- 
tagion," it shows that the ether or spirit gives 
"contagious transmission of ideas." 

It explains MONISM as being correct and that 
there is but one God. 

It explains that all of the material of a com- 



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bustive nature Naturally is censored by going to the 
intestines, and here it is emulsified and coated with 
an incombustive coat of albumen, if an oil and if 
starch is turned into sugar which in turn is changed 
to an oily substance in the liver later and this is 
subsequently emulsified for eligibility to the blood, 
but alcohol, essential oils and the organic bases 
sneak into the blood surreptitiously, therefore 
"medicine" is not food, there may be times when a 
stimulant is a pathological aid and the germs often 
make a stimulant in the body to help over a bad 
condition, as when the system contains useless 
material which is a load on the organs or when 
minerals or "humors" embalm the system, but only 
a limited amount is a medicine, any more is a 
poison, these cases are anomalies and under proper 
conditions are transgressions of Nature. 

This book shows that we can live upon a few 
cents per day and be stronger and better in every 
way — it shows why many who gave up eating meat 
failed and how they can discard the evil and cease 
to make graveyards of their stomachs — the author 
has experimented with dogs and cats and found that 
by feeding milk and well cooked oatmeal from the 
weaning period till maturity they throve and were 
happier gentler and more active and vivacious. 



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Meat causes man to be peevish, ill tempered and 
criminal, like-tobacco, alcohol and drugs. 

The differentation of animal bodies can be met 
by the cooking of the cereals, the short intestines 
and other conditions of carnivorous animals are not 
inhibitions to the discarding of meat as a food. 

Man and animals require pure soft water, hard 
and polluted water is a cause of much unsuspected 
poisoning and the hidden cause of "epidemics" and 
diseases — all water should be analyzed before being 
accepted as satisfactory. 

Mineralized waters are not desirable and the 
waters from some wells and springs are fit for 
plants but will disorder the liver and constipate the 
bowels — many farms are in the grip of misfortune 
and losses from having bad water for the use of the 
home and the animals. 

All of the unused elements which are thrown 
into the large intestine as waste should be dis- 
charged regularly and in cases of constipation a 
mild laxative like Cascara Sagrada or Senna should 
be taken to help Nature. 

The great category of medicines of the doctors 
is a farce and there is no mysterious "selective 
affinity" for certain drugs, but all elements have 
either one of two actions — a stimulating process or 



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a refrigerating or embalming process, some rem- 
edies go to the liver and counteract the embalming 
action and aid the flow of bile and some may be of 
a resinous nature and saponify in the alkalies of the 
intestines and aid their action. 

It will be seen that the book simplifies medicine 
to TWO PRINCIPLES, one counteracting the other 
like heat and cold but these actions are unnatural 
and undesirable it is only by avoiding discrepancies 
and ameliorations that we follow Nature. 

The book explains that the differentations and 
forms in the universe are the results of two forces, 
the curved force and the straight force, just the 
same as every word in English language is made up 
of letters having only two kinds of lines, the 
straight and the curved lines. The book tells just 
what occurs in the life cells and protoplasm this is 
a remarkable discovery and to show how much so, 
we quote from Le Bon the great Scientis, he says: 
"THE SCHOLAR CAPABLE OF SOLVING BY HIS 
INTELLIGENCE THE PROBLEMS SOLVED 
EVERY MOMENT BY THE CELLS OF THE LOW- 
EST CREATURE WOULD BE SO MUCH HIGHER 
THAN OTHER MEN THAT HE MIGHT BE CON- 
SIDERED BY THEM AS A GOD." (From EVOLU- 
TION OF FORCES, p. 363). 



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Haeckel declared that a cell did not go to the 
bottom of the secret of life and that we must allow 
that the naked protoplasm itself held the secret of 
life, this book proves that protoplasm is composed 
of molecules with centers of sulphur and phosphorus 
which conformed into WHITE SPARKS by the al- 
ternations of heat and cold, the SPARKS contain 
spirit and each spark has a quiet center or con- 
ciousness and a potential of radiation of force. 

This book is terse and compact, is printed on 
good paper and bound with red cloth with gold 
letters. 



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WHITE SPARK 

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The White Spark 

Part First. 

This work is an exposition of a NEW PHI- 
LOSOPHY, and although it has been taught 
to a number of highly educated men, — in a 
technical way, we have had many suggestions 
made to us to publish a work which the "work- 
a-day" people can understand, — some have 
said: "It is too far above me," and "why don't 
you explain it so everybody may understand 
it." 

In this section we have especially planned to 
overcome all such incongruities. 

First of all we want to say that nature is a 
strict economist of time, material and energy — 
her acts and laws are the simplest possible. 

When you see any philosophy that is com- 
plicated, it is wrong, but if it teaches simplicity 
it is right — the orthodox creeds have main- 
tained that the universe contained two distinct 
and eternal elements — MATERIAL AND 



SPIRIT — but this is complication — can be 
reduced,— WE ARE MONISTS AND "PAN- 
THEISTS" and we are right,— there is ONLY 
ONE ELEMENT IN THE UNIVERSE, AND 
THAT IS THE PRISTINE SPIRIT. 

This is all that is needed to form the uni- 
verse, and we will show that matter is simply 
an enclosure of SPACE or nothing, having an 
outline of spirit which is in such swift motion 
that it holds the outline — water can be sent 
through the air so swiftly that it will turn aside 
a steel bar. 

To better illustrate the fact we will take a 
blackboard and paint it all over with white- 
wash, then we take a wet sponge and wipe 
out round figures — these will show as black 
spaces outlined by the white — these black 
spaces represent SPACE or nothing, while the 
white represent SPIRIT — the black spots then 
represent MATTER. They are really noth- 
ing, only a form outlined and held by motion 
of spirit or "ETHER." 

The statement in catechisms that "GOD 
MADE THE WORLD OUT OF NOTHING" 
is then correct, although the statement has 
been called impossible by many scientists. 



Our philosophy was the first to enunciate 
the true nature of matter, atoms, molecules 
and electrons. Previous to this atoms were 
considered as solid indivisible particles. Later 
the scientists said matter was condensed spirit 
or ether. I imagined so myself once, but upon 
reflection I said, 'THE ETHER CAN PASS 
THROUGH EVERYTHING, SO WHAT 
COULD HOLD IT OR COMPRESS IT?" And 
spirit or ether could not compress ether, as 
ether is all alike. 

To show our part in teaching the world the 
truth we will go into a little history. 

As the readers of this work have probably 
never read THE LATCH KEY, I will reprint 
two paragraphs verbatim, numbers 6 and 1 7. 

Paragraph 6 will require some explanation. 
Count Rumford claimed that heat was nothing 
but a motion, and in some cases this is so, a 
motion of the atoms in a body, but a line of 
spirit from the sun will cause atoms on the 
earth to move, and thus is the real cause of 
heat, and so radiation of force or spirit from 
burning wood will create heat. Perhaps we 
have in this paragraph used the nature of spirit 
rather vaguely in saying heat is the "prime 

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mover," but heat in one way is spirit, or 
analogous to spirit. 



Matter Is Only Space or Nothing, With a Wall 
of Spirit. 

Fire was held in sublime awe by the Egyp- 
tians and the sun was worshipped as the source 
of Divine Power. The wonderful Pyramids 
are supposed to have been erected for the 
glorification of these subtile forces in Nature. 

Modern thought reverts to ancient ideas. 

Fire is simply spirit in motion. 

Heat is a circular or circumscribed motion or 
direction in which spirit is moving — it is the 
"Prime Mover" of organization, the creator of 
matter and the parent of the universe! 

A centrifugal act occurring from the intel- 
lectual fiat of spirit — leaving a center, a whirl- 
ing away of spirit to a certain circumference or 
distance from a center leaving space in the cen- 
ter — this is materialization, a creating of mat- 
ter, the formation of an atom, from nothing! 



17. 

The Point of a Pin Illustrates the Annihilation 
of Matter. 

A point continued to an absolute end must 
end in spirit! Matter is cut down to something 
beyond our senses; the absolute end of a point 
may contain an atom, but matter ends here — 
here where one single whirl of spirit surrounds 
the smallest amount of space possible. Beyond 
there is no whirl or motion of spirit, conse- 
quently no matter, yet there is now unparticled 
spirit. 

If electricity had been studied correctly no 
scientist would ever have imagined that matter 
was condensed ether. In Maxwell's Elementary 
Treatise on Electricity on page 49 he says: 
"WE KNOW ABSOLUTELY NOTHING 
WITH RESPECT TO THE DISTANCE 
THROUGH WHICH ANY PARTICULAR 
PORTION OF ELECTRICITY IS DIS- 
PLACED FROM ITS ORIGINAL POSI- 
TION." * * * "THE ACTUAL VELOCITY 
OF ELECTRICITY IN A TELEGRAPH WIRE 
MAY BE VERY SMALL, LESS, SAY, THAN 



THE HUNDREDTHS OF AN INCH IN AN 
HOUR, THOUGH THE SIGNALS WHICH 
IT TRANSMITS MAY BE PROPAGATED 
WITH GREAT VELOCITY." 

It is the very fact that the ether is not com- 
pressible that allows a wireless signal to he 
given a thousand miles away instantly. It is 
just the same as if you had a long stick and 
punched a bell 20 feet away. 

I sent my work, 'The Latch Key," to Sir 
Oliver Lodge and Sir William Crookes in 
1904. Its philosophy was buried for three 
years before the ideas were presented to the 
British Association for the Advancement of 
Science. 

Sir William Crookes wrote to me in 1904 
stating that he had received my pamphlet, but 
he was just leaving home for a vacation of two 
weeks and when he returned he would give it 
his attention. 

In Sir Oliver's great work, called "Life and 
Matter," he wrote: "But it appears now that 
an atom may break up into electric charges, 
and these again may some day be found capa- 
ble of resolving themselves into pristine ether. 



In that case the ether alone persists. It is the 
most fundamental entity." 

In another book called "Modern Views of 
Electricity" he said: "Ether is somehow af- 
fected by the immediate neighborhood of gross 
matter, and it appears to be concentrated inside 
it to an extent depending on the density of the 
matter." 

So it is seen that Sir Oliver at this time 
believed that matter was compressed or con- 
densed ether. 

In my pamphlets I explained that the ether 
could not be compressed, as it was capable of 
passing through all substance, and that matter 
was not more of the ether, but instead was less, 
and that atoms were simply spots of pure space 
or "nothing," and that the ether or its moving 
lines or sheets simply whirled around on empty 
space while what was called a vacuum was 
really the habitat of real material, or the ether. 

In 1907 Sir Oliver accepted this new version 
of the nature of matter, and it was the cause 
of much excitement in the British Association, 
so much so that the report reached America 
and Prof. Serviss wrote an article about it in 
the Boston Sunday American in October, 1907, 

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in which he says: 'The answer as recently 
given by Sir Oliver Lodge is amazing beyond 
belief. The solidest thing in existence, he 
avers, is the very thing which for generations 
has been universally regarded as the lightest, 
the most imperceptible, the most utterly tenu- 
ous and evanescent beyond all definition or 
computation — the ether!" And in the same 
article he says: "Matter, Prof. Osborne Rey- 
nolds has asserted, instead of being, as we in- 
nocently believe on the evidence of our senses, 
the only real and solid thing in nature is, in 
fact, the absence or deficiency of mass." 

The following is an article by Sir Oliver 
Lodge in regard to spirits: 

'Though for many years, ever since the 
eighties, I have tried all sorts of other methods 
of explaining these things, they have gradually 
been eliminated one after the other, and now 
no explanations remain except the simple one 
that the people who communicate are really 
the individuals they claim to be. Not always, 
of course. One has to prove them in every 
case. But still the conclusion is that survival 
of existence can be scientifically proved by 
actual psychical investigation. 



'That all leads to a perception of the unity 
running through all states of existence. That 
is why I say that man is not alone; that is why 
I say that I know he is surrounded by other 
intelligences. If you once step over the bound- 
ary beyond man, there is no limit to higher and 
higher intelligences up to the Infinite Intelli- 
gence himself. There is no stopping; you go 
on and must go on until you come to God. 

"It is no strange land to which I am leading 
you. The Cosmos is one. We here on this 
planet are limited in certain ways and are blind 
to much that is going on; but I tell you we are 
surrounded by beings working with us, co- 
operating, helping such as people in visions 
have had some perception of. And that which 
religion tells us, that saints and angels are with 
us, that the Master Himself is helping us, is, I 
believe, literally true." 

In presenting this work to the public we 
claim no right to inject any fallacies into the 
mind of the reader, and as far as we can dis- 
cover there is no cause for any misapprehen- 
sion in regard to our statements. THERE IS 
ONLY ONE TRUTH to any question, and all 



we base our claims upon is our ability to pre- 
sent facts pertaining to our enunciations. 

Fallacies are very short lived among persons 
who use their brains, and the only credit which 
any philosophy earns is from the good precepts 
which it inculcates, the value which it proves 
to the world and the TRUTH WHICH IT 
HOLDS. 

It is usually the case that a careless person 
resents any philosophy which conflicts with 
their habits, no matter how many facts you 
present to them or how much history you cite 
to them in proof of your statements. 

The use of tobacco and liquor deadens the 
users' alertness to safeguarding their own wel- 
fare, and in many cases with poisons and also 
diet the only thing we can do is to try to have 
you learn the truth, and if the end of the rope 
has been reached and you are at the ebb of life 
and hope, you will have more willingness co 
conform to the laws of life. If you don't need 
our philosophy as a "missionary," some time, 
you may want it as a doctor. Learn it, any- 
way. 

The greatest field for fruitful efforts is with 
the children. If we can prevent their using 



improper articles of food and drink and teach 
them the nature of their effects, then we may 
find better soil for the seeds of rectitude. Of 
course a little dissipation may not always cause 
great trouble. 

There is but ONE GOD and we may tell 
about SAVIOURS, "SONS OF GOD" and the 
TRINITY, but there is only one SAVIOUR and 
that is A TEACHER— either a SPIRIT or a 
HUMAN BEING — and the only salvation is in 
the following of Natural Laws which are 
GOD'S BIBLE. There are Natural laws which 
are OCCULT LAWS, and these sometimes 
contravene what we may call "LAWS OF 
MATTER." 

A TEACHER OF THE TRUTHS OF 
NATURAL SCIENCE IS GOD'S NOBLE- 
MAN, and KNOWLEDGE IS OUR ONLY 
SALVATION. 

The use of stimulants is just the same as if 
you should use a 104 volt electric lamp on a 
current with 250 volts. It would be burnt 
out; and so your nerves which are the wires 
of the body are wasted away by stimulants. 
They are all alike practically. Alcohol and 
essential oils act as a kindler to the natural 

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combustives in the tissues and the alkaloids or 
organic bases, as nicotine, morphine, etc., act 
like radium. 

Quinine is an alkaloid also, and I will here 
reprint a selection from the original LATCH 
KEY which explains the manner in which the 
organic bases become dangerous. They all 
contain nitrogen, which may account for their 
affinity for the nerve substance. 

32. 

Light and Heat From Radium Are From the 
Absorption of Ether. 

The emission of light from a substance spon- 
taneously, as iiji the case of "Radium," is not a 
new phenomenon. Nearly forty years ago 
Prof. Stokes enunciated the fact. 

He filled a glass tube with a solution of sul- 
phate of quinine and then moved it through the 
spectrum, entering at the red ray. When it had 
passed through all the colors and entered the 
region of the ultra violet, or where the invisible 
magnetic rays were, the tube lighted up. 

A solution of horse chestnut acted in the 
same way, so also did glass stained with oxide 
of uranium. 



Paragraph 45 was sort of a mysterious 
alchemical article explaining a secret of life. 
Life comes from the formation of WHITE 
SPARKS or vacuo in matter, and therefore 
bioplasmic elements MUST BE LIQUID, 
SOLUBLE OR MOBILE. They must be capa- 
ble of conforming into ROUND GLOBULES. 
Then the second feature must come in — heat 
and cold to expand the molecule and cool the 
outside and allow the inside to later contract 
and form a vacuum in the center, the home of 
SPIRIT. 

"Decay" generates life as it makes solid sub- 
stances soluble. Of course, excessive decay 
creates a gas and then this evaporates. 

45. 

Secrets of Silicon. 

Moses was a great alchemist, skilled in all the 
arts and sciences of the Egyptians. The works 
or writings of Moses are called Books of the 
Old Testament and not works on alchemy, but 
tradition tells us that his sister Miriam wrote 
an extensive work on alchemy — (the Catholic 
Bible has the name Miriam translated as 
Mary). 

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In Genesis Chap. 3, verse 19, we read, "Till 
thou return unto the ground, for out of it thou 
was taken; for dust thou art and unto dust 
shalt thou return. " 

Some scientists scoff at the idea of Moses 
and some scoff at the idea of "Spontaneous 
Generation," but we can prove that both are 
true. 

Life can be produced from MINERAL ELE- 
MENTS ALONE. 

Silicon has always been a source of dispute 
among chemists in regard to its classification. 
Some consider it a regular metal, but it is 
usually called a "hyalogen" or glass former 
like Boron. 

Silicon is never found in its pure metallic 
state in nature, but is in combination with 
oxygen, as is then called by various names as 
Silica, Silex, Silicic Acid and SAND, which is 
the most abundant of mineral substances. 

The most important and useful elements as 
air, water and sand God gives FREE TO ALL, 
they are found everywhere. 

Sand is at one time a crystallized substance 
and at another time it may be A COLLOID 

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substance and thus become the same nature as 
an "organized substance," as albumen. 

Sand is insoluble in pure water, but it is 
dissolved by alkaline solutions. Natural waters 
which contain alkaline carbonates always have 
some sand in solution. 

Sand from it's two fold nature seems to be 
the bond between death and life or the solution 
to the theory of "from dust to life." 

Sand when in solution is a colloid. 

If 8 or 10 parts of carbonate of soda or 
potash are mixed with 12 or 15 parts of sand 
and 1 part of charcoal on being heated they 
melt and form a mass resembling ordinary 
glass, but it entirely dissolves in hot water. 

If now chlorohydric acid be added to the 
solution it neutralizes the alkali and the silica 
or sand separates as A TRANSPARENT 
JELLY. A colloid! It is "hydrate of silica," 
but it is now fixed like albumen or an organ- 
ized substance and is insoluble in water or 
acid. 

If it is kept moist it remains a colloid, but by 
drying it and separating it from its partner, 
water, the colloid making alchemical mysteri- 

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ous WATER, the sand turns to dust again — a 
gritty powder! 

At common temperatures carbonic acid is 
stronger than silica, and upon many of the 
combinations of silica the air acts as a destruc- 
tive agent, its carbonic acid slowly uniting with 
bases or alkali and liberating the silica, and at 
the moment of its liberation the sand is soluble 
in water. 

Sand, it will be seen, acts both as an acid 
and combines with an alkali and as a base and 
combines with acids. 

Sand in solution enters the roots of plants 
and from its transforming nature or transmuta- 
tion, it performs great wonders in nature, it 
performs miracles in the animal body and in 
water itself. 

It is the ideal agent for the generation of 
vacuo spaces or life cells, from its being in one 
state when warm and in another when cold, 
from its being capable of forming soft cell 
walls and then concreting around a quantity of 
ether or spirit upon cooling. It proves itself 
the "Philosopher's Stone." 

Hot and cold and silicon! What a wonder- 



f ul combination ! It explains the mysteries of 
the universe, radio-activity and life. 

It may be well to here state that there is no 
chemical difference between a dead man's 
brain and nerves and a live man's brain and 
nerves. This in itself shows that the cause of 
life and intelligence is simply from some con- 
formation of matter which allows the presence 
of Spirit. This is the invisible process of the 
formation of WHITE SPARKS or the making 
of a hollow center to molecules. 

LIFE is not a principle per se of organic mat- 
ter, but organic matter is arranged into round 
molecules with cell center of silicon phos- 
phorus, sulphur or iron. 

The hard and fast nature of the elements is 
an imagination and it is only a short step of 
nature from quartz or silicon to carbon and I 
may also say to nitrogen the gas of the at- 
mosphere. 

THE FARMER CAN BECOME A MAGI- 
CIAN by intellect. We once proved that by the 
use of lime or an alkali vegetables can be made 
to grow IN SAND. A tomato plant was 
planted in a mixture of sand and plasterer's 
mortar (a mixture of quick lime and sand) 

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and a bushel of tomatoes were gathered from 
this one plant. The lime makes the sand solu- 
ble and acts the same as manure which pro- 
duces carbonic acid which at the moment of 
its formation acts as a solvent of sand and this 
gives growth. Water is the great element of 
life and growth — with the heating effect of 
the sun and the alternations of temperature or 
cooling after heating we augment the life and 
growth. 

I will reprint some more of the articles which 
were in THE LATCH KEY, as they seemed to 
strike the readers more impressibly than any- 
thing which I ever wrote, and in fact THE 
LATCH KEY seemed to have hypnotic influ- 
ence. First of all IT WAS ANONYMOUS and 
no author's name appeared and further it was 
given away. 

One lady in later years found out the author 
and wrote to me for a few copies, saying she 
could not help crying when she read paragraph 
37. Perhaps the paragraph took on the 
"poetical" and thus reached her sentiments. 



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37. 
The Secret of Life! 

The little chapel peacefully resting under the 
overhanging trees, with the solemn graveyard 
beside it, tells the story of life's longings and 
miseries. Yet within the little chapel, however 
humble, can be learned the secret of life's joy 
and success and the eternal happiness of the 
soul ! 

Life's sentiments are fragrant, space only is 
fraught with pain ! 

Spirit fledges space, unlocks the caverns of 
misery and sheds the light in the gloom. 

Man grovels in the dark mid the skulls of 
despair till he lists to the whisper of spirit. The 
lisping pines, the rustling oaks, the sunshine in 
the meadow and the moonlight on the hill 
speak in accents calm and clear. Our motto: 
"SPIRITUS EXCELLO." 

Water is the great agent of life or conforma- 
tion as it is mobile. 

Molecules which are round when whirled or 
heated take to orbits, but the metallic sub- 
stances having molecules of a disc shape whirl 
on their axes. I herewith give articles 26 and 
42 of the LATCH KEY: 



42. 
Why Ashes or Water Do Not Burn. 

Fire is the action of atoms or molecules in 
separating farther apart. To be sure, ashes 
have atoms, but for atoms to whirl apart their 
motion must be so that they can separate. If 
the heat causes them to whirl on their axis 
only, the substance may get red hot, but will 
not burn. 

And some substances do not burn because 
the heat and motion applied whirls the mole- 
cules or groups of atoms apart and wastes its 
motion in that way. Water acts this way 
(steam). 

Crystallization is the result of the formation 
of vaco cells or white sparks, and I reprint 
paragraph 26 to explain this fact: 

26. 

Annealing and Malleability of Metals. 

Crystallization has been considered in para- 
graph 21, but when matter is cooled very 
slowly through long periods of time, vacuo 
spaces are not formed. 



Ordinary cast iron is crystallized, but when 
it is heated in a furnace and gradually cooled 
through several days or weeks, it becomes 
"malleable iron." 

The iron which is used as an electro-magnet 
for a telegraphic machine will not work unless 
the iron is annealed very soft by being heated 
and allowed to cool in the ashes as the fire 
gradually dies out. 

Crystallization is the most wonderful dove- 
tailing process conceivable. When a liquid is 
cooled the molecules become radio active and 
radiate lines of force. These lines are nearly 
straight, unlike heat lines, and therefore they 
are cold lines. They drive matter in planes and 
straight lines or surfaces instead of into glo- 
bules or liquids which move. The discs of ice 
cannot move or roll about like the globules of 
water, and ice is hard like quartz or a form of 
flint or silica. 

All objects are formed by the action of TWO 
forces, either a curling force or a straight force. 
Plants form leaves in the air, and where there 
is more obstruction and curving influence they 
form roots. ALL CELLS ARE ALIKE in their 



first state, but are changed in the process of 
growth or from influences. 

A slip from a geranium when stuck into the 
earth will form roots. It seems to me that each 
cell in an egg contains a counterpart of the 
whole body of a chicken — that is, it contains 
electrons or occult matter which, once having 
passed through all parts of a fowl's body, in the 
blood photographs these parts. 

We can account for the various parts of the 
egg yolk turning its cells into different forms 
by the location which the particular cell oc- 
cupies — as cells in various parts, — at the cen- 
ter, — or at the surface, — would be subject to 
curling forces or straight forces. At the center 
forces would be obstructed and curled, and at 
the surface just the opposite, and a hundred 
variations, according to the location and sur- 
roundings. 

How many times I have wished that a social 
condition could be instituted by which EVERY 
LIVING BEING in the world or the universe 
could be happy and free from fear, worriment, 
hunger, and exposure — where peace, plenty 
and pleasure existed for all — where all could 
have a horse, automobile, golf link or any cor- 

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rect thing which their ideas called for to make 
them enjoy themselves. 

FOUR HOURS' labor per day is enough for 
any one and there is enough in the world to 
^ive every one happiness and plenty if THL 
SOCIAL CONDITION was arranged correctly. 

While there are many unfeeling capitalists, 
yet the poor are not always right. They don't 
know how to act for their own welfare. They 
may know what they want, but don't know 
how to get it. An ignorant poor man will often 
sell his vote or he is too ignorant to learn that 
lie should obey correct laws. 

The London Spectator recently gave a biog- 
raphy of former Secretary of State JOHN HAY 
and I give an excerpt from the same: 

"It was natural that Hay should despise the 
arts of the demagogue. He speaks with scorn 
of what he calls 'gutter Ciceros,' and of the 
practice adopted during a sharp electoral cam- 
paign of 'hiring dirty orators by the dozen to 
blather on street corners.' He very rightly 
held that it was the special duty of statesmen 
in democratic countries to have the courage of 
their opinions. He himself wrote a novel, en- 
titled The Bread Winners,' which was widely 

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read, and which was really an elaborate de- 
fence of capital against the attacks of labor; 
and in 1905 he wrote to President Roosevelt: 
'It is a comfort to see the most popular man in 
America telling the truth to our masters, the 
people. It requires no courage to attack wealth 
and power, but to remind the masses that they 
too are subject to the law is something few 
public men dare to do.' 

"America at her best can produce men of a 
very high type. Such a man was John Hay." 



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Part Second 



Spirits and the Spirit Land. 
1. Reveries in the Country. 

It was a day in January. The desultory 
snow-flakes were skudding here and there and 
a white mantle was becoming visible on the 
fence tops and pine trees, and as I gazed 
dreamily from the window of my study I heard 
the church bell in the belfry of the village 
church peal out its glad tidings of love; and as 
its decadence faded away, a thought peaceful 
and quiet captured my soul, — it seemed as if 
the reverberating voice of the holy bell had told 
me a story — a secret of happiness and peace. 

2. Redemption of the World. 

And as I settled back in my broad wicker 
arm chair before the blazing hearth fire I said 
to my inner soul: "How beautiful is this mo- 
ment! Can I perpetuate the sentiments which 
give me joy on this Sabbath day, can I delve 

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into the laws of comfort and rest and emerge 
with a TROPHY TO REDEEM THE 
WORLD ?" 

3. Spirit and Matter. 

The scintillating sparks in the fireplace rose 
up on the wings of a golden glow, paused for 
a moment and then I saw a flash of pure white 
light gleam like the star of Bethlehem. I had 
seen the wild, red coals changed to peaceful, 
redeemed souls of light. 

4. A Truism of Nature an Eternal Principle, 

The church bell, emblematic of religion, and 
the "white spark," a ubiquitous principle or 
the universe; visions of the superstructure of 
the millennium, rose up before me — religion 
and science hand in hand, science the fact and 
religion the herald or harbinger. 

5. Matter Only the Wake of Spirit. 

I had seen that from out the depths of the 
base matter come forth a substance pure and 
glorious. Transmutation then had proved that 
there is no vile, low or corrupt matter in the 
universe, and the idea is a relic of the ignorance 

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inculcated in the dim vistas of the past All 
matter is simply a figure sculptured by the 
pencil of spirit, vortices which use space as a 
playground, speed which holds the lines stiff 
and refractory against ultra intrusion. 

6. Science of the White Spark. 

Now I see two visions — two houses in the 
precinct of nature — the first a structure of 
spirit for the abode of space or nothing; 
second, a structure of space for the, abode of 
spirit, the all, the great, the powerful, and the 
conscious; the first, a minute affair, an atom; 
the second, a collocation of atoms forming a 
shell or larger structure for the abode of spirit, 
and this is formed by a heated or mobile, mole- 
cule conforming substance, suddenly cooled by 
oxygen or a cold temperature, when a shell is 
formed and indurated, and a hollow center 
made. 

7. Symbol of the White Spark. 

I introduce a new symbol ° the emblem 
which will represent the white spark, the circle 
or hollow globe, for this is what the white 
spark is, and this spark prevails throughout the 



universe. It is a hollow molecule, holding an 
air-tight reservoir, excluding everything but 
spirit or the ether. 

8. The Spark is a Receptacle of Mind and a 
Potential of Force. 

The white spark is alive. It has a shell 
formed of rotating atoms which roll in the 
spirit or magnetic lines of force. The lines 
converge to a common center. Here they 
must halt for an instant. Force cannot be lost, 
so it is transmuted into consciousness. This 
mind can now radiate lines of force from the 
center out again. 

9. Mathematics of the Spark. 

If you take a silver dime and lay it on the 
table you will find that it always takes just six 
dimes to form a ring around it. This leaves 
six spaces between the dimes, and it is the 
same with atoms, and a molecule seen from the 
side if radio-active, and if we could see the 
lines of force, would show six streams of force, 
and the snow-flake always has six points. 

10. Crumbling Sparks and Permanent Sparks. 

The sparks of combustion explode from the 



inner force, but the "sparks" of a magnet and 
radium do not, and the sparks formed in proto- 
plasm or in the nerves and brain last longer 
than the sparks of combustion, and the sparks 
in the spiritual bodies of departed souls are like 
radium. 

11. Location of the Spirit Land. 

In paragraph 6 I refer to two visions of 
houses in the precinct of nature. Now I refer 
to a third, the greatest, most beautiful and won- 
derful abode in the universe. This house has 
no interior of simple space or nothing, and 
again it has no outer wall of matter. It is the 
pristine spirit and it is in the interstellar spaces 
outside of the planets. 

12. Conditions in the Spirit Land. 

In this land there is no gravity or obstruc- 
tion. What is built and placed there is free 
from destruction and decay. Living spirits 
can move by a thought and build by their de- 
sires; spirits can outstrip the earth in its flight 
in its orbit, can come to earth and leave at any 
time or part of its orbit. This is a home of joy. 

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13. Attributes of Spirit 

The soul is kept in our body by the mag- 
netism of our blood. When a person goes into 
a trance there is an embargo on the blood and 
the soul can leave the spark cells of the nerve 
substance of the brain and occupy a spiritual 
body or electrical vapor in the atmosphere or 
ether. During sleep or failing powers of the 
mind, the soul is drowned out by matter, the 
permanent spiritual center of the spark is over- 
flowed with matter and consciousness is tem- 
porarily turned to motion. Spirit always, in 
any amount, has the attributes of intelligence 
and power; the ether transmits intelligences. 

14. Superiority of Spirit 

When our soul leaves our body it enters its' 
own, it becomes clear and bright as in child- 
hood; there is no fear, pain or dimness of 
thought and mind. We meet our friends, we 
remember and visit our earthly friends in the 
human body, we strive for their uplift and hap- 
piness, we live in happiness and peace, yet our 
earthly career affects our degree of spiritual 
advancement, and the truths which you can 
learn at the little country chapel and the emula- 



tion of the "SERMON ON THE MOUNT" will 
prove to be your "WAND OF HOPE." 

15. The Pope Says the Advent of the Saviour 
Is Near. 

In a decree of Pope Benedict sent out from 
Rome on January 19, 1915, he says: "Those 
days which Christ predicted seem in fact to 
have come, 'You shall hear of wars and rumors 
of wars. For nation shall rise against nation 
and kingdom against kingdom'." Christ can 
return to earth in spirit. There is no need for 
Him to come otherwise. He can talk to a per- 
son adapted to receive telepathic instructions 
and give the world His message. 

Some readers may be averse to the claims 
that Jesus Christ is anything but an imaginary 
person from the inventions of the priests of the 
early ages, and others may claim that contem- 
porary with the dates applied to the fictitious 
legend there was a great teacher and the teach- 
ings recorded were from this teacher. But 
what difference does a name make ? The only 
issue of any value is what is taught. No great 
teacher cares a whit about what the people 

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think about his personality if they accept his 
works. The name Jesus has been applied to 
the teacher of the good things in the New 
Testament for so long a time now that we can 
well afford to grant the application, whatever 
might have been his acceded name. 

All the ether in interstellar space is intelli- 
gent, and if we connect our mind with it we 
gain power and intuition by a "sixth sense/' 
but to do this we must not throw the blanket 
of too much blood about the brain. "Prophets' ' 
have to diet and fast. 



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Part Third 

How to Generate the White Spark or "Vaco- 
Cells" in Our Body. 

All the life and thought on this earth and in 
any material and on any other earth or body 
in the universe comes from a peculiar trans- 
action by which all matter is cleared away and 
a space left wherein there is nothing but the 
invisible ether or spirit. 

The origination of all tangible matter was 
from the degradation of spirit and the trans- 
mutation of thought into motion, and it is by 
the motion of spirit that matter is formed from 
spirit. 

Therefore to regain the conditions of 
thought and to regulate the adjustment of ma- 
terial or matter conditions must be instituted 
which simulate the original state, and evade 
the decadence from contiguosity of matter and 
generate SPIRIT in vaco-cells with life and 
power. 

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This great principle is the keynote of all that 
we hope for in existence. It is the most vital 
science and yet it has remained totally hidden 
from the ken of mankind. 

This NEW SCIENCE opens up a field in the 
new order which holds the greatest hopes for 
Utopian success ever given to man. 

It is not gold, power, notoriety or glamor 
that make for this great process of joy and 
health. It is not the costly foods and luxuries 
which bring us within reach of this coveted 
condition. 

When we learn the facts we find that the 
great part of mankind are very much misin- 
formed and that human knowledge is upside 
down. We find that peace and happiness like 
air and water are not under a ban, but that God 
is on the side of the unostentatious and simple 
living people, and that what has been con- 
sidered by some as poverty is really greatness 
in disguise. 

Nature never places any premium on truth 
and like all good things should be free of access. 

Among the things which we give, you will 
find new methods of combatting disease, a 



means of economic freedom and of rising 
above misfortune. 

We will show that most diseases are caused 
by the food and drink which is used. The 
theories of the "howling germ doctors" are all 
insane emanations from an ignorant mind. We 
will prove that there are two distinct types of 
disease with an admixture of these two types. 

The first type is malarial and is caused by a 
mal-assimilation of sugar and grease, fat or oil 
in the system. The second type is "small-pox'' 
and is caused by the non-assimilation of the 
nitrogenized element of meat, or gelatinous 
elements. 

When you know the cause you can avoid the 
disease. GERMS or MICROBES are not the 
cause of disease, but are beneficent provisions 
of nature to reduce meat proteids, etc., which 
are blocking the system, to a state in which 
they can be eliminated from the blood, and 
therefore we always find the poisonous URIC 
ACID in all cases of small-pox, etc. Even an 
excess of vegetable proteid is injurious. 

In malarial diseases we always find an excess 
of carbonic acid or other acidulous products 

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of decaying or germ inhabited sugars or 
glycerines (from grease, etc.). 

A diet of skim-milk and white bread will 
cure malaria, and a diet of SKIM-MILK and 
oat-meal will cure kidney disease. 

During health the blood is always ALKA- 
LINE, while the tissues or nerves and ganglia 
or brain are always acidulous. NOW THIS 
IS WHAT I WANT TO IMPRESS UPON 
THE MIND, for it relates to my discovery of 
the WHITE SPARK PRINCIPLE. An acid 
acts like heat, while an alkali acts like cold. 
The molecules in an acid are rotating in orbits, 
while the molecules of an alkali rotate on an' 
axis, so we can see how when the blood be- 
comes acidulous as in disease WHITE SPARK 
CELLS OF LIFE CANNOT BE FORMED. 

SUGAR has proven itself a bane to human- 
ity. It is a modern product and was not used 
by the ancients. Honey had a limited field 
as a luxury, and here I will say the high cost 
of luxuries has been a protective principle for 
poor people. 

Sugar has no limit of solution. Water will 
absorb it until an immobile syrup is formed, 

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and glycerine, a product of grease, acts similar 
to sugar in the system. 

Syrup has a great affinity for LIME, and 
children who eat candy and sweet foods have 
bad teeth, as the lime required for the teeth is 
absorbed from the blood by the sugar. Any 
chemist knows the great affinity of syrup for 
lime, and this is why he makes the syrup of 
lime which is used in prescriptions where lime 
is required. 

Sugar acts as an acid, chemically, forming 
Saccarites with the bases or alkalis. Sugar 
destroys the natural alkaline state of the blood. 

There has been a great scare around Boston 
about a "NEW DISEASE." The doctors have 
various ideas about its nature and treatment. 
It is generally called ACIDOSIS and is sup- 
posed to be the result of eating too much 
sugar; but some doctors say it is AN EPI- 
DEMIC and is not caused by sugar. In the 
disease the blood has been found to be 
acidulous. 

Sugar will fill the system with an embalm- 
ing element, and thus the tissues are saturated 
with an element which acts on the system like 
ashes thrown on a fire. They extinguish it, and 



as sugar prevents oxidation in the system, the 
VACO-CELLS or "WHITE SPARKS" cannot 
form. 

There are times when electrical machines 
will produce only a few weak sparks and at 
other times powerful sparks are produced, and 
it has been proved that this state of non-elec- 
trical atmosphere is the cause of EPIDEMICS 
when the system is loaded with either sugar or 
gelatinous products of a meat diet. 

Fasting is often necessary in disease, for 
disease is usually a congestion of the blood and 
a distention of the blood vessels, and when we 
lessen the quantity of blood or the excessive 
pressure from the effects of stimulants, etc., 
we allow the blood vessels to get a grip on the 
blood and force it along. A dog or horse will 
never eat when he is sick. 

An invalid for a time may do best on a little 
toasted white bread and skim-milk, as oat-meal, 
etc., may contain too much gluten, which is 
not needed in the system at this time. There 
is a difference in proteids. Gluten is more like 
gelatine and is used where toughness is re- 
quired as in the skin, tendons and muscle. The 

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vital proteids are required in the nerves and 
brain. 

It is not well to eat eggs for breakfast in all 
kinds of sickness, but a soft boiled egg for din- 
ner may be good for some. 

The excessive use of meat is a cause of 
cancer, and it is the gelatine which is to blame. 
There are two factors, however, which should 
be considered. We may eat gelatine, sugar or 
grease, and if we work hard in the open air 
we overcome the disease in a measure. It has 
been proved that carnivorous fishes have 
cancers if the fishes are crowded in a pool, but 
removal to running water cures them, as run- 
ning water contains more air and oxygen 
which gives more nerve power and eliminates 
the useless material. 

It is the same with malaria. Work in the 
pure air burns off the hydro-carbons better and 
the blood becomes more mobile. 

When we use oat-meal, mush, etc., with 
skim-milk we don't get much solid food, for 
we fool ourselves by taking lots of water which 
we would not use otherwise. In winter sta- 
bled horses are seen to excrete dark heavy 
urine, as they are fed on grain or proteids and 

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drink little water. Vegetables contain much 
water and are useful. 

The air in closed rooms is dead, but out-door 
air is in motion. Decay and filth fills the air 
with gasses and oxygen is displaced, which 
means death to "the white spark" of the 
nerves, the generators of power. 

If you have money and leisure you can dis- 
sipate more with less inconvenience than as if 
you had no money or time. 

It has been proved that the use of alcohol, 
tobacco, etc., wastes the tissues and nourish- 
ment the same as hard work and overworks 
the liver, kidneys and lungs; but work is the 
poor man's bulwark, and thus it is that the 
abstemious person is always a better, wiser, 
more reasonable and industrious employe than 
the other. 

The "sport" has a debauch and then a 
"loaf" or else he soon goes to the sanitarium. 
Stimulants always lessen your powers after 
each dose or after the first effects are worn 
out. 

We can show you how to overcome poverty 
without a labor union propaganda, or a lodge 
benefit, for you can live on a few cents per 

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day and become better off thereby, if you fol- 
low the right method. Many have tried to live 
on boiled potatoes, beans, skim-milk and 
vegetables, but have failed; but the trouble was 
this : the system had been adapted to the stimu- 
lation of creatinin, the stimulant of meat, and 
when this was withdrawn there was a slack 
action to the stomach and general system. But 
I have proved that if you use some onions or 
celery or some mild condiment like pepper or 
the like you can avoid meat without trouble. 

Many reformers have failed because they 
drop stimulants, yet still eat soups and meats 
or cakes and rich dishes. YOU MUST DROP 
THESE THINGS WHEN YOU DROP ALCO- 
HOL AND DRUGS, for meat gelatines, grease 
and sugar make a heavy refractory blood and 
nature calls for an increased nerve action, but 
this stimulation is a first stage of inflammation 
with its weakening reaction. Starch is trans- 
formed into grape sugar in the intestines, yet 
nature regulates this better than when sugar is 
taken directly into the stomach, as this goes 
directly to the liver. 

The simple living person gets up earlier, 
works easier and gets more enjoyment from 

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the sunshine, the open fireplace and all the 
beauties of nature. 

A fine cigar may stimulate the brain, but 
like Emerson you may decline when you 
should be in your prime, and perhaps, like 
him, lose your memory. Emerson in his last 
years attended the funeral of his old friend, 
Longfellow the poet, but could not remember 
this man's name at his last rites. 

I believe it is utterly impossible for any per- 
son to live a real safe moral life, according to 
the Christian code, and subsist upon the ordi- 
nary food and drink of the times. For instance, 
the use of coffee will often create immoral 
feelings which a saint could not overcome. 
Tobacco creates sensations in a like manner. 
Anything which creates undue nerve action 
causes a congestion of the inner organs. I 
might as well tell you to place a torch in a 
powder magazine and then prevent an explo- 
sion as to tell you to become a true Christian 
and live upon highly exciting foods or drugs. 

There was never a true saint which did not 
practice self-restraint in regard to foods, drinks 
and habits. 

You will see that I am an advocate of the 

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simple life, yet I want to say that I am not 
trying to drive anyone against their will, and I 
also want to say that I do not say you will go 
to immediate destruction, always, by diverging 
from my creed. Some persons from the nature 
of their ordinarily proper habits withstand 
much that is taboed by science, yet this does 
not change the facts that correct physiological 
habits are the only ones to be condoned. 

The use of some fruit sauce may not always 
prove serious, of course, and the farmer who 
eats baked apples and milk may plod along in 
his own way and retain good health, yet an 
invalid who can barely keep alive had better be 
fed on easily assimilated concentrated life 
building food. As explained elsewhere, a per- 
son who does not use alcohol or tobacco, etc., 
can use some fruit sauces, etc., and as the 
poisons have not weakened the nerves which 
govern the liver and vital organs, the liver can 
take care of the acids and sugars. Stimulants 
create wastes in excess and overpower the kid- 
neys and liver, and when they are discarded 
there is loss of required nerve power. 

When a nation has any serious business on 



hand or when Arctic explorers want to get to 
their goal they abolish the use of ALCOHOL. 

Russia has been under prohibition for the 
short time of the war, and the decrease of crime 
has already proved what a monster DRINK 
has been. In 33 precincts of Moscow for the 
first half year of 1914 there was an average of 
986 criminal cases a month, while for the first 
temperance month there were only 406. 
Crime was reduced 54.7 per cent. 

Within two weeks after the closing of the 
wine shops of Russia she felt as if RESUR- 
ECTED, and it was proved that perfect tem- 
perance was possible and that alcohol was not 
a necessity. 

This is only the working out of a Natural 
Law and is the enactment of one branch of 
codes, and it holds true of drugs and all of the 
many branches of physiological requisites. 

Individual freedom many times is a menace 
to a person's welfare. This is proved by the 
"freedom" with which persons can get drunk. 

If the monarch was a wise and conscientious 
ruler, an absolute monarchy would be a bless- 
ing. God is an absolute monarch and his law 

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is absolute. Nature has no favorites and we 
must obey the law or pay the penalty. 

Society is to blame for crime. If municipali- 
ties would enact ordinances preventing the dis- 
pensing of injurious foods and drinks, and 
otherwise control the PREVENTION of a per- 
son's dissipation, it would necessarily vanish. 

But we see the evils of giving legislatures 
power to enact coercive medical laws when 
ignorance controls the legislators. 

The forcing of citizens to submit to the 
inoculation of virus or serum in themselves or 
their animals is equal to the monstrosities of 
the medieval ages. The recent epidemic of 
hoof and mouth disease, the Germ Doctors 
themselves admit, was caused by a hog cholera 
serum which was tested by the government 
bacteriologists and pronounced clean and was 
sold by a Chicago firm. The hoof and mouth 
disease has never been proved to be a gen- 
erator of specific "germs," as no miscrocope 
has ever detected any such germ, and the 
poison will pass through a porcelain filter. So 
how can the virus be "tested?" 

There is an epidemic of "Grip" about now, 
and a health doctor, Dr. Chapin of Providence, 

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R. I., says: "Persons with mild attacks con- 
tinue at their work and thus rapidly spread the 
disease. It is for this reason that isolation and 
official control have never been able to check 
an outbreak. The epidemics run out them- 
selves after a few weeks." 

Well, then, we are safe! Let them run out 
instead of poisoning thousands of healthy per- 
sons with Typhoid and other serums. 

Every German soldier, it is claimed, is given 
the three inoculations of Typhoid Serum be- 
fore going to the front, but recent medical re- 
ports say the Typhoid fever has been malig- 
nant in the men in the trenches. 

There has recently been a great amount of 
study about the ductless glands of the animal 
body. It has been variously claimed this thing 
and the other for their uses, but I am going to 
tell what nature made them for, THEY ARE 
FOR THE REDUCTION OR "DECAY" OF 
PROTEIDS WHICH MAKES THEM VERY 
SOLUBLE AND READY FOR THE FEED- 
ING OF THE NERVES AND CELLS. The 
elements which go into them never come out, 
but are reabsorbed. With one exception, the 
male sacs eject the nerve food for the propaga- 



tion of the species, but it is a cause of disease 
and weakness. 

It is proved that the ductless glands (or 
sacs) take in proteids which become formed 
into granules and gradually decay or are 
broken down enough to be reabsorbed. 

The loss of the fluids of these glands is the 
loss of an alkaline nerve food, and many dis- 
eases would be avoided if chastity had been 
preserved. They prevent the acidity of the 
blood, which is the cause of many diseases. 

The bacteriologists must learn that they can- 
not fool nature. If your system holds sub- 
stances which nature must remove by germs 
it is of no use to kill the germs, because this 
does not remove the cause. If we kill all the 
specific germs of one disease, then nature will 
give some other germs in place of them. 

There has been a great cry that consumption 
has decreased. Perhaps it has, but nature still 
gives just as much action with her required 
eliminating process as ever. Here is what Dr. 
Hutchinson writes in the Boston American, 
January 10, 1916: 

"Although, in the main, the march of 
modern medicine has been a series of triumphs, 

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at certain points its progress has been checked, 
if not actually defeated. 

"While we have been steadily beating back 
typhoid, tuberculosis and diphtheria, most of 
the diseases which have baffled us have been 
either maladies of later life, like cancer and 
arterial sclerosis, or conditions depending upon 
long continued action of a variety of imper- 
fectly known causes, like heart disease, 
B right's disease and insanity. 

"But there is also one disease among the 
pure infections whose germ has been identi- 
fied, whose active cause known for nearly 
thirty years past, which still defies us, and that 
is pneumonia. 

"In fact, for some ten or fifteen years past, 
we have been faced with the singular and dis- 
quieting paradox, that of the two greatest and 
most fatal diseases of the lungs, while tuber- 
culosis has been steadily declining, pneumonia 
has been rapidly increasing in deadliness. 

"Twenty years ago tuberculosis caused 
about one-seventh of all the deaths in the 
United States; pneumonia, about one-fifteenth. 
To-day tuberculosis has fallen to about one- 



twelfth of the deaths, while pneumonia has 
risen to one-tenth. 

"One reason why pneumonia so baffled 
medical skill was that, although the germ, or 
rather germs — for there are at least four varie- 
ties of them, each producing a different type 
of the disease — were well known, the infection 
seldom naturally spreads to other human be- 
ings, and it was for a long time rather difficult 
to transmit it experimentally to animals. 

"Further than that, the pneumococcus 
which produced the most serious types of the 
disease was, if not identical with, quite hard 
to distinguish from two or three types of strep- 
tococci which were found in abundance in the 
human mouth, about the roots of the teeth 
and in the tonsils, even in conditions of perfect 
health. 

"So that we were driven to the discouraged 
conclusion that some 'state of the system/ or 
lowered resisting power or other unknown 
factor, was necessary in order to allow the 
pneumonia coccus to get a foothold in the 
lungs and produce the disease; and there the 
case hung for a number of years. 



The Open Air Cure. 

"Considerable improvement in all but the 
most virulent type of cases was produced by 
the introduction of the open air treatment, with 
abundant feeding similar to that relied upon 
in tuberculosis. But we could not honestly 
say that we knew of any drug or remedy which 
appeared to have a directly curative effect upon 
the disease." 

Can't you see that the product is 22 in 
either case ? And don't you see that the "germ 
doctors" have not fooled nature? 

There is a great epidemic of "grip" and 
pneumonia sweeping the country — one of the 
worst ever known. In Providence, R. I., the 
disease has been the cause of more deaths in 
a given time than was ever known. Here is 
what the Evening Bulletin says in the issue of 
January 10, 1916: 

"Fifteen persons in Providence died of pneu- 
monia or grip during the second half of last 
week, making 35 lives claimed here by the epi- 
demic in the first eight days of January. 

"This is the largest number of deaths from 
these diseases which the city has ever had in a 



similar period. Physicians report that there is 
no indication of a let-up in the epidemic as yet, 
and that a continuance of the unusually high 
death rate may be expected. 

'There were nine deaths from pneumonia 
last Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and six 
j fatalities from grip. The deaths for the first 
eight days of the month are as follows : Pneu- 
monia 24, grip 10, acute bronchitis 1." 

At the Rhode Island State Institutions there 
are nearly 300 cases of the disease — 100 at 
the State Prison alone — but at the State Re- 
form School for girls there is not one case, as 
this school gives better hygienic care to the 
inmates. But the great reason is the girls are 
not dissipated and nature does not have to pro- 
duce the germs in their systems. 

Reformers are often bombarded with statis- 
tics by brewery owners, distillers and those 
whose ideas are regulated by personal benefits. 
The favorite weapon is the story of the man 
who lived to be old and always drank or 
smoked. Here is a reprint of such a story: 



HALE AND HEARTY AT 102. 

New Jerseyman Chews Tobacco as Preventive 
of Disease. 

Newton, N. J., Dec. 22. — Charles Ashford 
Shafer, Sushex County's oldest resident, cele- 
brated his one hundred and second birthday at 
the home of his son, George Shafer, to-day. 
Mr. Shafer is still active, hale and hearty, and 
walks several miles a day. He was born a few 
miles from here and has spent all his life in this 
section. For many years he conducted a dis- 
tillery. The centenarian declares that chewing- 
tobacco is a means of preventing disease, and 
he has been chewing it since a boy. Mr. Shafer 
reads without the aid of glasses. 

But wait a minute — here is a better one: 

TEETOTALER DEAD AT 115. 

West Virginian Never Tasted Liquor or 

Tobacco in His Life. 

Wheeling, W. Va., Nov. 29. — Henderson 
Cremeans, known to be the oldest man in West 
Virginia and probably the oldest in the United 
States, died to-day at the home of his grandson, 

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Clark Cremeans, near Point Pleasant, Mason 
County, aged 115 years. He never tasted 
liquor or tobacco in his life. 

And when we study statistics of the insur- 
ance business we may rest assured that they are 
correct, for an insurance company gets a pre- 
mium on every policy and regulates its action 
upon the correct statistics. Here is another re- 
print: 

SAYS PROHIBITION IN RUSSIA 

WILL SAVE 500,000 MEN 

Insurance Expert Claims That If Czar Carries 
Out Present Intention, Loss of Half Mil- 
lion in War Will Be Made Up in Decade. 

New York, Dec. 11. — Results of an investi- 
gation in which an entirely new set of statistics 
had been gathered were put before the Associa- 
tion of Life Insurance Presidents at their an- 
nual meeting at the Hotel Astor yesterday and 
threw a new light on the influence of alco- 
holism, overeating, undereating, and other 
factors in shortening lives. 

The investigation, which has just been com- 
pleted, concerned the causes of premature 



deaths in the last 25 years among the 
2,000,000 policy holders of 43 leading insur- 
ance companies. The object of the investiga- 
tion was to determine which types of persons 
could be insured safely at regular rates, which 
ones should pay extra premiums, and which 
ones should be refused. The results were 
given by Arthur Hunter, chairman of the 
bureau that made the investigation. 

"If the Government of Russia carries out 
its present intention to abolish permanently all 
forms of alcoholic beverages, the saving in 
human life will be enormous," said Mr. 
Hunter. "The loss of 500,000 men as the 
result of the present warfare could be made 
good in less than ten years through complete 
abstinence from alcoholic beverages by all the 
inhabitants of Russia. 

"Among saloon proprietors, whether they 
attended the bar or not, there was an extra 
mortality of 70 per cent., and the causes of 
death indicated that a free use of alcoholic 
beverages had caused many of the deaths. The 
hotel proprietors who attended the bar, either 
occasionally or regularly, had as high a mor- 
tality as the saloon keepers. 

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"Among the men who admitted that they 
had taken alcohol occasionally to excess in the 
past, but whose habits were considered satisfac- 
tory when they were insured, there were 289 
deaths, while there would have been only 190 
deaths had this group been made up of insured 
lives in general. The extra mortality was, 
therefore, over 50 per cent." 

Cardinal Gibbons says: "Reform must come 
from within," and he opposes prohibition; but 
there is no question but what prohibition is the 
right thing as has been proved, for in some 
persons the only thing "within" is alcohol and 
ignorance. 

SOCIETY is about our only hope. Lord 
Bacon wrote the first half of a book on this 
subject of an ideal society or community, and 
he described as a first requisite his "SOLO- 
MON'S HOUSE," a college or school where 
NATURAL SCIENCE was taught. 

Thomas More portrayed the same ideas in 
his "UTOPIA," a beautiful island where ideal 
laws and conditions prevailed. Campanella 
also had an idea in his "CITY OF THE SUN." 

Where temptation is removed better condi- 
tions exist, for human nature always wavers 

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and no one is permanently wise. The lad in 
the country is healthier than the one in the city. 
Why? Because there are less temptations in 
the country. 

What is it that perfects animals but forcing 
proper rules upon them ? 

I have experimented with fowl and found 
that you can perfect them by proper treatment. 
I raised 56 pullets one spring, and that winter 
I had eggs galore. The fowl were healthy and 
happy. I fed them only two meals a day on 
cracked corn and wheat or the regular "scratch 
feed" of the market in the morning, and at 
night gave them scalded meal, seasoned with 
some salt, pepper and onions; sometimes 
cooked potato parings, etc., were used. I sup- 
plied the fowl with fresh ground bone which 
held some fat, of course. I always had gravel 
and ground oyster shells before them, also 
plenty of fresh water. They had their run and 
found grass both in summer and winter, and 
had a dry, roomy house. 

Meat is not only unnecessary to animal life, 
but is injurious. My hens laid more eggs than 
any others about and were bright, active and 
healthy, yet they had no meat during all the 

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jwinter. The bone was not necessary, for I 
bad at times fed poultry a little fat or oil instead 
bf the ground bone, and they did just as well. 

The mind has a great effect on the digestion, 
jand it is necessary in selecting our food and 

Brink to have it agreeable. Of course, this 
oes not mean that because something tastes 
good we should use it, for poisons often taste 
Ipleasant. We mean that from a variety of 
salutary food we should select what we like, 
|and again any combination, adjustment or 
preparation which enhances the food is very 
useful. For instance: 

Potatoes mashed, mixed with eggs, flour, 
pepper and salt and other articles which are not 
injurious, and then fried in a little butter are 
very agreeable, and many such manipulations 
of foods are wise. 

But spices, coffee, tea and such condiments 
contain tannin and poisons and should be 
eschewed. 

If a person should suddenly change his diet 
from a liberal one to mush and skim-milk it 
might give him indigestion and disgust, for 
the organs try to adapt themselves to certain 
kinds of food; and if the persons cannot take 

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a vacation while reforming their diet, it might 
be better to wait until they can. After a fit 
of sickness one can start with the right kind of 
food and drink and improve by it. 

People who are raised on simple food relish; 
it and keep happy and healthy. Here is a re- 
print which proves this to be true: 

"According to census reports, persons who. 
live 100 years or more are very scarce. The 
United States, with a population of more than 
90,000,000, is given credit for only 46. Ger- 
many's population is 60,000,000 and its quota 
of centenarians is 70. Great Britain, with a 
population of 46,000,000, has 94. France, 
with 40,000,000, claims 164. Bulgaria, with 
4,000,000 inhabitants, boasts of 3,300, and 
Roumania, with 6,000,000 people, has 3,320 
centenarians. The last named little countries' 
eat little meat and use a great deal of milk and 
dark bread." 

The persons who used tobacco, etc., and 
lived to be old might have lived much longer 
if they had been abstemious. William Smellie 
in his "Philosophy of Natural History" records 
cases where persons have lived to be over 150 
years old, and some of the oldest people, for 

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instance, Capt. Diamond, was a simple living 
man and lived to be 113 (when I last heard 
from him). He never even used sugar and 
was an old bachelor, showing that simple life 
allows continence. 

It has been proved that meat allows an alka- 
loid condition in the intestines which generates 
poison producing germs, while vegetable food, 
like oat-meal, etc., produces an acid condition 
which, it is claimed, "prevents the generation 
of microbes and poisons which produce prema- 
ture old age." The large intestine when re- 
taining the elements from the bowels too long 
becomes a "filth reservoir." 

Prof. Metchnikoff says that animals having 
a greater length to the large intestines do not 
live as long as those with shorter large intes- 
tines, which cannot breed the poisonous bac- 
teria so well, yet he is puzzled by the long life 
proportionately of the squirrel, which has a 
long intestine, and he says he has found few 
of the "dreaded bacteria" in the intestine of 
the squirrel. (This is because the squirrel has 
not the noisome elements here which harbor 
germs.) 

The recent discoveries that VEGETABLE 

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food inhibits the generation of the microbes 
or renders them unnecessary is an object les- 
son which tells us to live upon the foods as 1 
recommend, for the squirrel lives upon veget- 
able food or nuts, which are seeds with Vaco- 
Cell forming molecules. 

We need not discard the use of a few condi- 
ments of a mild nature from our food, and a 
little salt, pepper or onion, etc., may not be 
prohibited. 

It has been found that a good regime is made 
up of a breakfast of skim-milk and well cooked 
oat-meal; a dinner of boiled potatoes, eggs or 
fish and boiled rice and skim-milk, and a sup- 
per of skim-milk, rice and perhaps boiled 
beans. If you are not a hard worker you should 
not use too many beans or any excess of pro- 
teid foods, and a few boiled onions, etc., may 
be added to the dinner if desired. A little 
butter may be used with food if skim-milk is 
used, but the use of an excess of rich milk loads 
the blood with too much grease. 

The outside hull of grains, beans, peas, etc., 
contain cellulin, an indigestible woody fibre 
which acts as a mechanical laxative to the 
bowels and aids health if you can use coarse 

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food. Of course, invalids could not always 
use such food, as their stomach can hardly 
digest milk or eggs. Fruit and acids should 
not be used as foods by invalids. 

The germ of grain and seeds in general is a 
great nerve food or "spark generator," but as 
it is highly organized it changes easily and so 
is not used in fine flour. 

My theory is that the whole universe is inter- 
dependent and that there can be no separation 
of its component parts. We and all things are 
joined together the same as a knitted sock-^ 
joined by invisible lines of force; and as all 
matter is simply a peculiar aspect or motion of 
spirit or the ether, and as no part of the ether 
can be separated or absolutely isolated, it is 
an axiom that the universe is ONE. Nothing 
can be moved except there is a fulcrum. It 
may be infinitesimal or like an isthmus though. 

The great scientists are now admitting this 
to be a fact. Prof. Edgar Lucien Larkin says: 
"In the ultimate, what distinction can be drawn 
between organic and inorganic matter, since 
mind is matter or force? Therefore, is it not 
but matter or force under a different aspect or 

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relation to surrounding appearances, or, in 
other words, are not all things a unit?" 

This scientist further says: 'The ultimate 
distinction between inorganic and organic mat- 
ter is the inscrutable mystery." And here is 
where I am able to explain this GREAT MYS- 
TERY. 

LIFE is spirit and I have discovered a process 
in Nature, which we explain in other works 
more extensively, by which she forms invisible 
"VACUUM CELLS" in matter, which are con- 
scious and with a potential of radio-activity, 
and this is the principle of all life and form in 
organic bodies and in the snow-flake, etc. The 
process is simple and is from alternations of 
heat and cold. 

In the bioplasmic foods of nature the germ 
of seeds, for instance, we find a peculiar ar- 
rangement of the molecules. They contain a 
cell center of SOLUBLE SULPHUR, SILI- 
CON OR PHOSPHORUS. This arrangement 
facilitates the formation of the white spark, 
and the formation of this wonderful food in 
plants depends upon the soil. 

Alkali, and carbonic acid gas, in the nascent 
state, makes SULPHUR, SILICON, Phos- 



phorus and IRON soluble. I have evaporated 
five gallons of spring water and obtained the 
solid residue and found out the wonderful 
nature of the cell center elements. These 
minerals are hydrated and at a temperature of 
100 degrees they are liquids, and at 50 degrees 
they are solids. This explains the reason why 
certain proteid foods are "bioplasmic" and how 
easily the white sparks are generated in the 
nerves and brain. The bodily or tissue tem- 
perature when life is active is 100 degrees and 
the oxygenized blood and evaporation from 
the lungs and skin reduces the temperature of 
the molecules to 50 and the life vacuo are 
formed. Oxygenized blood cells are discs 
rotating on an axis like an alkali. 

I have in other publications explained that 
meat was a second-hand food, in which many 
life molecules were exploded (gelatine), and 
that the proteid portions of milk, eggs and 
vegetable foods contained "CARTIRDGES OF 
LIFE AND POWER," that is, molecules hav- 
ing sulphur or phosphorus centers which under 
proper conditions formed VACO-CELLS, es- 
pecially the germ of all seeds which is absent 
in fine flour usually. 

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I discovered the paradox of temperatures by 
accident. I had been in correspondence with 
Sir William Crookes, President of the British 
Association for the Advancement of Science in 
England, and in connection with a scientific 
matter he had advised me to evaporate the 
water of a certain Spring, and it was in follow- 
ing out his directions that I found "THE 
CENTER FORMING MOLECULAR ELE- 
MENTS,'' which nature uses in forming foods. 

There have been many changes in the ideas 
of scientists within a few years. Several years 
ago I was taken to task for stating that the 
wave lengths of a line of force could be short- 
ened or increased by the nature of the sub- 
stance which it passed through, but one of the 
Great Professors — Garrett P. Serviss — has 
just stated: "So the waves of radiant energy 
sent out from the sun are not heat, but have 
been set going by heat in the sun and CAN BE 
TRANSFORMED into heat again on encoun- 
tering the earth." 

Anyone may perform two interesting ex- 
periments which prove the statements which I 
make in regard to "the white spark." 

When the soldering compound which is sold 

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to fill up holes in marbleized iron ware is 
melted and dropped into cold water, peculiar 
little bodies are formed — little rubber bags or 
cells filled with powdered sulphur at the center; 
the compound being composed of sulphur, 
rubber and quicksilver in this experiment fol- 
lows the natural laws, and the opposite fea- 
tures of heat conduction causes the sulphur to 
be encased with the more organic rubber. 

The other experiment is dropping melted 
tinsmith's solder into water at a temperature 
of 75 degrees when hollow balls are formed, if 
care is taken in dropping the metal in a globule. 

The great provisions of Nature are so suffi- 
cient and magnificent that it is proved that the 
worriments of mankind are imaginary, and it 
is a fact that they are the result of physical 
disorders brought about by improper food, 
drink and habits. 

When I see the beautiful sunshine pouring 
life-giving rays upon everyone and every atom 
in the world, when I see the grandeur and sta- 
ble travel of the bodies of the sidereal system, 
when I see the unperturbed growth of the 
trees, plants and grains, the gentle rain and the 
whispering winds, I can say surely the human 



acts of greed, malice and crime are the results 
of a distorted mind. 

Judge Swann says FIFTY per cent, of those 
who are brought to trial in the criminal courts 
of New York City are addicted to the use of 
narcotics. 

Judge Collins says that since the "BOYLAN 
LAW" allows the sale of medicines containing 
a certain percentage of narcotics, the Health 
Department cannot pass laws restricting such 
sales without contradicting the state statutes. 

Coffee, tea and other insidious poisons are 
agents of the "DEVIL" also. Chocolate and 
roasted wheat, peanuts, etc., are poisonous. 
Roasting often creates empyrean oil. 

It is the ascetics or those who live upon 
vegetable foods, milk and eggs with some fish, 
or those who do not overeat and live the 
"SIMPLE LIFE," who look upon the grandeur 
of Nature properly and ignore the contin- 
gencies of life which others commit suicide 
over or ply the cry of incongruity in Nature. 

Consider the religious martyrs of the 
medieval ages and see how the little "Jap" 
with his ration of rice went to battle without 



fear and endured hardships and put the Rus- 
sian Army beneath his feet. 

It is the same with the abstemious prize 
fighter. He has more coolness and endurance 
than the beef steak eater and libertine, as 
proved by Freddy Welsh, the world's cham- 
pion lightweight. 

The Harvard Football Squad had a number 
of men stricken with appendicitis after training 
upon a meat diet, supposing that meat was a 
requisite to hard work, a fallacy too often 
disproved. 

Jess Willard, the world's champion pugilist, 
says he never smoked nor drank liquor in his 
life, and at the end of the battle with Johnson 
he felt as if he could fight "a thousand rounds/' 

We all wish PEACE, HAPPINESS, 
HEALTH, STRENGTH and SUCCESS. The 
only differences between us are HOW TO 
OBTAIN THESE DESIRES, and yet a little 
candid observation will show us the truth. 

The first transaction must be a determina- 
tion and an agreement to become independent 
of all other codes and methods except those by 
which the above objects can be attained. 

There are many habits which appeal to us 



as being a means of personal well being, and 
yet they are insidious enemies. 

It is the regime which has a reaction for our 
health and happiness which we should follow, 
and we must have sense enough to eschew the 
methods which are sure to bring a subsequent 
disaster to us, even if they may induce a tem- 
porary pleasure, for there can be but one cor- 
rect path which leads to elysian joys. 

Nature is wiser than we are and we must 
not set ourselves up as her superiors, for if we 
do we are sure to fall. We must not make 
use of her productions until she has finished 
them, and we must not use things for food or 
drink which she has arranged for some other 
purpose. Sugar is an unfinished product of 
nature, and leaves, barks, etc., containing 
poisons are not intended for our consumption, 
and we should not breathe smoke into our 
lungs when it is intended that only pure air 
should pass into them. 

We should not entertain passion for pas- 
sion's sake when it was intended only for re- 
production. Secretions in ductless and sac fill- 
ing glands are for reabsorption. If I take the 
finished products of nature and undo them 



again, I am as unwise as if I used them before 
nature finished them. The breweries take the 
beautiful grains and degenerate them and peo- 
ple use the liquid poisons and do not realize 
that they are insulting nature and ruining 
themselves. We take grains, etc., and roast or 
burn them into poisons and seduce ourselves 
with the mistaken idea that we are using harm- 
less and innocent food or drink. 

We steal the property of others, we extort 
from them, we are jealous of them with the 
delusion that we are the benefitted parties, but 
nothing is more untrue than this idea. 

All of the mental, social and physical effects 
of greed, malice and immorality are indelibly 
disastrous to us, and we have a mistaken idea 
of our needs and of the things which make 
happiness. 



What the European War Has Demonstrated. 

We have previously stated that FOUR 
HOURS labor per day was enough for any 
one, and this would carry on the world's indus- 
try adequately and to prove this we give an ex- 
cerpt from an article by the great English 
Divine — Rev. R. J. Campbell, his statistics 
prove that POVERTY IS UNNECESSARY 
and that wage earners can be paid enough to 
buy what they wish to make happiness—, 
pianos and other so-called luxuries, and auto- 
mobiles could of course be substituted for 
pianos if their desires should require such. 

At the present price of automobiles they 
are within reach of the man who will give up 
drinking and using tobacco or other narcotics 
and I want to say that I believe riding in one 
of the new type steel bodied automobiles with 
a magneto ignition is a great health augmenter 
as these cars when running become charged 
with electricity and I quite often get a shock 
from one of my automobiles if I happen to 
touch part of my hand to the body of the car 
while the other part has hold of the side shift 
lever. This statical electricity has been proved 



by- Dr. W. J. Morton, of New York City, to be 
a wonderful therapeutical agency. When prop- 
erly supplied to the body it causes the blood 
discs to take up more oxygen from the air and 
augments the power of the vital apparatus. 
(See his address published in the November, 
1893, Transactions of the American Institute 
of Electrical Engineers.) 

Riding in a carriage or car will aid the circu- 
lation of the body fluids without waste of our 
own energy, the motions massage the body, 
the same as muscular action. 

Work is a benefit to us but how much do we 
need is a question, — a sick person can not 
work and a person's training and condition 
must regulate this, — too much work draws 
the vital force from the vital organs and mental 
work is absolutely injurious in sickness, the 
brain draws on the vitality to the detriment of 
the vital organs of the body, yet again the cul- 
tivated mind has a power to govern the base 
faculties which debiliate the body. 



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I 

Part of the English Divine's Article Which We 
Have Referred to: 

"One of the strangest paradoxes about this 
period of destructiveness through which we 
are passing is that there is very little dire pov- 
erty about. It has taught me a lesson, a lesson 
which probably the workers as a class are as- 
similating too, namely, that destitution and 
the degradation which so generously accom- 
panies it could be got rid of in a month in time 
of peace if we were only in earnest to do it. 

It is caused simply by an unfair distribution 
of wealth. We always knew that, but what 
we did not know was that it could be so speed- 
ily remedied. We thought it would take a long- 
time even if the nation were willing to tackle 
the problem seriously, which it has not yet 
shown any anxiety to do. We were afraid of 
drastic experiments of a social nature, with the 
consequent displacement of capital, the shock 
given to that very delicate entity, the national 
credit, and so on. 

Go more slowly, was the universal cry. 
Give us breathing space. These drastic 
changes one after the other — all in the direc- 



tion of making the rich pay more into the 
pockets of the poor — are very dangerous. 
You are impairing public confidence; do wait 
awhile before you attempt anything further. 
You are imposing a tax on industry which is 
certain to hinder productiveness. 

And we were wrong, the whole lot of us 
— Kaiser, German Bureau, British Tories, 
hesitant Liberals, landowners, bankers, manu- 
facturers, shopkeepers, taxpayers generally, 
and probably the proletariat, too. It is noth- 
ing short of amazing. Here we are hurling 
our accumulated stores of wealth into hell, the 
hell of war, and the workers as a whole were 
never so well off. 

We are able to pay, and we do pay, without 
complaining. We are doing it without suffer- 
ing very greatly, without hearing the cry of 
hunger going up from our congested areas as 
it has too often done in time of peace, and 
without the slightest apprehension that we are 
drawing near to the end of our strength. 

We shall be able to go on doing it for years 
if need be. The savings of the working 
classes have hardly yet been touched for na- 
tional purposes, and if report speaks true there 



has been a not too creditable increase in the 
purchase of cheap luxuries — and luxuries not 
commonly accounted cheap, too, such as 
pianos — among a section of these, unskilled 
laborers especially. They are not unpatriotic, 
but is it to be wondered at that they should 
suddenly feel themselves well-to-do and fail to 
realize that war is economic wastage as well 
as wholesale murder? 

Three pounds a week, and no 'usband!' a 
lady engaged in munition work is credited 
with saying — 'Wy, it's 'eaven!' There is 
humor in the sentiment, one must confess, 
though it was not complimentary to the ab- 
sent husband. 

We have withdrawn not less than four mil- 
lion men from productive occupations and 
set them to smash and kill instead. 

Think of it ! And then remember that those 
men have to be equipped and maintained 
somehow or other by the rest of us, and that 
most of them are the very pick of the coun- 
try's early manhood. And we can afford to 
do it! We can do it, and in the process make 
an end of destitution for the time being and 
secure to wage-earners a higher standard of 



comfort than they have ever enjoyed before. 

Will the electors of Great Britain, rich and 
poor, try to digest that fact and grasp its impli- 
cations? The logic of it is that we can if and 
when we choose get rid forever of the cry- 
ing disgrace of starvation and misery at one 
end of the social scale and senseless ostenta- 
tion at the other. 

The thing is demonstrated now. 

The army as it exists to-day is a fine all- 
around leveller. A good many artificial 
prejudices and social distinctions are being 
swept away by the power of actual daily com- 
radeship in the face of death. These four mil- 
lion citizen soldiers have votes. How will they 
use them when they come home ? 

Let the lesson be driven well home. We can 
do all that is required if we want to do it. Be- 
hold the economic miracle of to-day, and con- 
sider what is possible to-morrow. There need 
never be another hungry mouth. No honest 
man ought to have to dread the loss of a job 
or to lower his self-respect by seeking the aid 
of the Poor law. 

It is all nonsense to say that the problem of 

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destitution is unsolvable or that our resources 
will not bear the institution of a standard liv- 
ing wage for everybody and not for the aris- 
tocracy of labor only. 

After the debacle of 1871 France was ap- 
parently ground to powder, her manhood 
decimated, her trade ruined, her treasury 
empty, and an enormous indemnity to pay to 
her triumphant foe. She recovered so quick- 
ly and completely, to the surprise of every- 
body, that in 1875 Bismarck, like the bully he 
was, wanted to hit her again, and would have 
done so but for Queen Victoria and the Brit- 
ish Government." 

I have shown how to rise above poverty 
even when the capitalists grind the worker 
down to a wage inadequate to his service, yet 
this is not a just condition, and when the 
war in Europe is over many workers will be 
back to their countries, to work. There may 
be lack of employment then, but let the FOUR 
HOURS per day schedule be put in operation 
and let the pay be proper and all will be well. 

Let the capitalist adjust himself to the fact 
that the worker is HIS BROTHER and that 
THEOCRATIC DEMOCRACY is God's Law. 

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The air, the water and all necessities are 
one man's as much as another's. 

The Kaiser, King George or the President 
of France must drink the same water which 
his lowly brother has once drank and breathe 
the same air which he has breathed. 

A King has water brought to him — it may 
be that this water, — the very identical mole- 
cules, were once in the blood and body of a 
lowly tiller of the soil; he may have drank it, 
excreted it, it went to the river, to the ocean, 
then evaporated to the mountain top, and was 
again precipitated to the earth and leached into 
the King's well. 

The VOTERS HAVE THE POWER TO 
ADJUST THE LAW; if they belie themselves 
who is to blame? 

Let them institute the INITIATIVE AND 
REFERENDUM AND THE RECALL OF 
JUDGES first, then make the proper laws to 
raise man to the social position where he be- 
longs. 

It is well known that much of the poverty 
and misery of the world has been caused by 
ALCOHOL, and the use of narcotics is also 



not far behind in the cause of degradation and 
misery. 

The prohibition laws which have been in- 
stituted in Russia prove these statements to 
be correct and to show the wonderful prosper- 
ity which ensues from temperance. I give a 
statement from Russian Minister of Finance 
Bark. He says: 

"On the other hand, there is nothing illu- 
sory or specious about the Russians' prosper- 
ity. It rests upon the incontrovertible fact of 
the Russian people's increased earnings and 
savings. 

When, a year ago, the savings banks 
showed a monthly increase of 50,000,000 
rubles, it was regarded as phenomenal. But 
that was only the beginning. During the 
month of January the savings banks alone 
showed an increase in deposits of 120,000,000 
rubles. This is accounted for principally by 
the growing thrift and economy of the peas- 
ants since the enforcement of prohibition, by 
their greater earning power and the higher 
wages they command. This marvellous pros- 
perity makes Russia capable of raising large 
numbers of successful internal loans, and it is 



by this means chiefly that we hope to defray 
the expenses of the war, which have now 
reached 1,000,000,000 rubles monthly." 

Blessings often come to us masquerading 
as evil; this terrible war has its benefits. 
While death must come to everyone some- 
time, it may be that we put too much stress on 
the fact that so many lives have been sent to 
the BETTER SHORE within such a short 
space of time, and it is best to believe in the 
axion THAT WHAT IS— IS RIGHT. 

There probably will never be another war, 
and perhaps, it must be that this one is the 
lever to throw THE "DEVIL" into OB- 
LIVION. 

The Germans have seen the revelations as 
well as the other belligerents. Here is what a 
writer in Berlin says: 

"On Tuesday and Friday there is no meat 
to be had. On Monday and Thursday the 
consumption of fats is forbidden. Some alco- 
holic drinks are forbidden to be sold after 9 
o'clock at night. They are mostly liqueurs. 

The enforced abstinence from meat on two 
days of the week has been accepted every- 

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where with personal satisfaction. You agree 
with the German when he tells you that he 
has eaten too much meat all his life, and is 
glad the government has made him reform. 
So on these days he eats fish, oysters and vege- 
tables, and declares he feels the better for it." 

This item from Augustus Baech is illumi- 
nating and instructive. Grease is not a colloid; 
it does not absorb the gastric juice like a bet- 
ter organized element, and thus the stomach 
is irritated. There is a law of Nature by which 
the molecules affect matter; crystaline sub- 
stances in solution are readily drawn into 
colloids. A system of symbols helps under- 
standing in the matter — let us represent an 
acid by a perpendicular line, an alkali by a 
horizontal line, a crystal by a pyramid and a 
colloid by a globule; flat surfaces oppose 
round ones and a confusion of straight forces 
would produce a spiral force. 

There is a great law of HUMAN BROTH- 
ERHOOD, yes, more than that — a law of the 
brotherhood of all animal life. 

The hatred of the English, Germans and 
Russians in this flaming war of passion is 
wrong — let us remember St. Peter's vision of 



the basket let down from heaven with all 
kinds of men in it. 

The reform of diet and habits will relieve 
the tension of malice, hatred and jealousy, the 
lessened rage of sexual passion will curtail the 
undue birth rate, the nations will not need to 
conquer more territory and the social condi- 
tions will be adjusted. 

How beautiful would it be to see all men 
living in peace, harmony, prosperity and hap- 
piness. 

Let us regain our reason and settle down 
to truth and common sense and have peace 
and correct understanding between individ- 
uals and nations. IT CAN BE DONE, and 
THIS WILL BE THE MILLENNIUM. 



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